11 February 1981 Drama, Comedy, Romance 99 mins
A not-so-young "Young Guy" (Kayama) returns in this reunion feature, which takes Yuichi and Ishiyama to New York, where the former runs in the New York Marathon and romances TV producer Minagawa. A delightful throwback to Toho's '60s style filmmaking.
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Yūzō Kayama as Yūichi Tannuma
Kunie Tanaka as Shinjiro Ishiyama
Ryoko Sakaguchi as Junko Minagawa
Agnes Lam See-Chung as Flora
Kirin Kiki as Tomoe
Natsuko Kahara as Mari O'Hara
Toshihiko Yamamoto as Kuwata (Photographer)
Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Toshio Eguchi
Hisako Manda as Urara
Machiko Naka as Teruko Eguchi
Makoto Matsuzaki as Uematsu (Driver of Ishiyama)
Yū Fujiki as Okuyama
Taizo Sayama as Seō (Captain of Kyōnan Track and Field Team)
Osami Nabe as Central Post Office Staff
Tsugunobu Kotani Director
Yasuo Tanami Screenplay
Ken'ichirō Morioka Music
Hideki Mochizuki Gaffer
Kazuo Satsuya Art Direction
Nobuyuki Tanaka Sound Recordist
Michiko Ikeda Editor
Shôji Ueda Director of Photography
Return of the Champ-Young Guy Comes Back Trailer
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Japan 11 February 1981
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1981:
28 April 1981
Simon Simpson runs an entertainment agency in Liverpool. At one of his regular auditions in The Bootle Railway Club he sees an aggressive young man fresh from the dole queue who dreams of becoming a professional comedian.
22 January 1981
Many films have received almost no audience response at the time of their release in cinemas - this one is one of them.
06 May 1981
An underpaid and underappreciated man goes missing from his office one day. What happens to the company?
12 June 1981
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
12 August 1981
Xiu Juan, a filial daughter and caring sister, trades her soul for money to look after her mother and her brother's studies.
26 October 1981
A man murders his brother in a crime of jealous passion. An adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story of the same name.
11 June 1981
Two ex-convicts are hired by the Devil to manage a small town cemetery.
04 November 1981
After his wife is raped, a man struggles to find ways to express the anger and helplessness which the crime has instilled in him.
31 December 1981
The found-footage collage was overlaid with a psychologist expounding on sex offenders, analog video effects, edgy graphics, and a new wave score by the band Human Sexual Response.
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